There are currently 385 girls enrolled at La Cañada's all-female Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy. But despite all those young women, and more than 30 student organizations on campus, there wasn't a club expressly dedicated to feminism or women's rights.

Enough is enough! For years we have nagged the city of La Cañada Flintridge about the Verdugo Park-N-Ride. Nothing has changed. Each morning we commuters dodge obstacles to park in a lot filled with commercial vehicles and covered with trash. We park...

I know it was more than a week ago now, but I really liked the Fiesta Days family dinner and fireworks show that took place in Memorial Park. I love to ooh and ahh as the dark night lights up in colors of the rainbow that sparkle. It's not my fault, you...

On a cloudless morning Saturday, more than 100 people gathered in Memorial Park to pay tribute to those who lost their lives during the 9/11 terrorist attacks nine years ago. Veterans, officers and firefighters joined the crowd in remembering the event,...

Between 1915 and 1923, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) massacred nearly 2 million Armenians. There were death marches and extermination camps. For the survivors, there were mass exiles.
To this day, Turkey has refused to acknowledge this event, and only 26...

Those for and against a proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero butted heads during a passionate three-hour hearing of New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission last week, CNN reported. At issue is whether a more than century-old building should be preserved and made into a mosque and community center at the site where the Twin Towers once stood. What do you think? Is it appropriate to build an Islamic center and mosque on the site where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were...

Come Jan. 1, Glendale Adventist Medical Center and Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center will no longer allow smoking on hospital grounds.
Not far behind, Verdugo Hills Hospital — located in Glendale, along the border of La Cañada Flintridge — plans to go smoke-free by the end of 2011.
The moves come on the heels of aggressive smoking regulations implemented by other health-care organizations and local governments, including USC medical centers and the cities of Glendale, Pasadena...

In an open letter issued in late August, 53 religious leaders, mostly Protestant and Catholic, called on the U.S. to stop using airstrikes against Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria and instead seek more peaceful means to resolving the human rights atrocities there. But Republican party officials and other prominent Christians, Catholics and Jewish leaders have pushed for more forceful U.S. military action in the region.
Q: What’s your opinion? Should the U.S. commit more ground troops and...

Retired Israeli President Shimon Peres during a meeting with Pope Francis this month proposed a new global peace initiative: A “United Nations of Religions,” the Washington Post and other news sources reported.
“People who shoot the most these days nearly always say they are doing it in God’s name,” Peres told the Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana before meeting with the pope. “What is needed is an unquestionable moral authority that says in a strong...

In a controversial decision June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the religious rights of the closely held for-profit Hobby Lobby crafts chain, whose owners objected to the Affordable Care Act's contraceptives mandate. (The court did not apply those rights to publicly held corporations.)
In a Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll conducted in April, Americans backed the contraception mandates of the healthcare law by a 2-to-1 margin. Some of those objecting this week to the Supreme Court's 5-...

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), whose district office is located about a mile from where a Hobby Lobby store will open on Friday, criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the arts-and-crafts supply retailer to pay insurance covering contraceptives for its female workers.
“The Supreme Court's decision in Hobby Lobby is a setback for women's health and access to reproductive choice,” Schiff said in a statement in response to the 5-4 ruling.
The court ruled for the first...